The brain has an extraordinary ability to functionally and physically change or reconfigure its
structure in response to environmental stimulus, cognitive demand, or behavioral …

How can we leverage digital technologies to enhance language learning and bilingual
representation? In this digital era, our theories and practices for the learning and teaching of …

The last two decades have seen a significant amount of interest in bilingual language
learning and processing. A number of computational models have also been developed to …

In 2005, Science magazine designated the problem of accounting for difficulties in L2
(second language) learning as one of the 125 outstanding challenges facing scientific …

Lexical Processing and Second Language Acquisition provides a comprehensive overview
of research on second language lexical processing, integrating converging research and …

Recent research in cognitive effects of bilingualism has generated both excitement and
controversy. The current paper provides an overview of this literature that has taken a …

Individuals show differences in the extent to which psycholinguistic variables predict their
responses for lexical processing tasks. A key variable accounting for much variance in …

Historically, first language acquisition research was a painstaking process of observation,
requiring the laborious hand coding of children's linguistic productions, followed by the …

A recent movement in cognitive neuroscience is the study of brain networks through
functional and effective connectivity. The brain networks approach has already found its …

In order to describe how humans represent meaning in the brain, one must be able to
account for not just concrete words but, critically, also abstract words, which lack a physical …